I recently saw a sneak peak at the movie Attack the Block. The movie is about aliens that invade inner city London and a gang of teenagers have to fight them off. The movie is a fun and exciting movie with lots of action and some cool looking aliens. It got me thinking about the best movies about aliens. And with Super 8 coming out this weekend seemed like a good time to for a list.
There were too many movies with aliens to come up with just a list of 5 so I decided to narrow the list down to best alien invasion movies. These are movies that have aliens coming to Earth for whatever reason. I was thinking of including Close Encounters of the Third Kind but decided that was more of an alien abduction movie.
1. Independence Day-An instant classic when it came out. Lots of destruction crazy aliens and great one liners. Made Will Smith an action star and gave Jeff Goldblum one of his best roles.
2. District 9-A little different alien invasion movie. Instead of aliens coming to take over the world they accidently crash land in South Africa and are forced to live in quarantined area. Making more of a political statement then about alien invasions but still has some great action.
3. Signs-Even if the aliens don't show up till the end the suspense in this movie is great. The movie slowly builds up the tension and had me hooked the whole way through.
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)-Another example of the original being much better than the remake. Again a movie that makes more of a political statement using aliens. Here one alien comes to Earth and warns men to stop using nuclear weapons or face the wrath of the aliens.
5. Evolution-A crazy comedy about tiny microorganisms from space that evolve rapidly and threaten to take over an Arizona city. Love David Duchovny and Julianne Moore who normally play much more serious roles in comedic roles. And Seann William Scott as the wannabe firefighter is hilarious.
The one movie that I had great debate in including in this list is E.T. A great movie about a more peaceful alien then some of the other movies but just missed out.
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